The Other Side Of Deception
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''The Other Side of Deception'' is a follow-up to the best-selling nonfiction book ''
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Victor Ostrovsky Victor John Ostrovsky (born 28 November 1949) is an author and a former katsa (case officer) for the Israeli Mossad. He authored two nonfiction books about his service with the Mossad: ''By Way of Deception'', a #1 ''New York Times'' bestseller ...
, a former Mossad agent with operational knowledge. It contains a bibliography of newspaper articles in support of original book.


Summary

The book concerns the concept of a Mossad divide and conquer strategy, pitting secular
Arabs The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
against Islamist Arabs and between Arab Muslims and Non-Arab Muslims such as between Iran and Iraq. The Mossad assists
Hamas Hamas (, ; , ; an acronym of , "Islamic Resistance Movement") is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ...
in destroying the PLO and creates a civil war between the secular and Islamist factions of the Palestinians. The book was written in 1994, but his predictions came true with the election of Hamas in the
Gaza strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...
and the civil war that broke through between Hamas and the PLO. The relations between Hamas and the Mossad soured after the Second Intifada, which occurred after the writing of this book. In the
Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair ( fa, ماجرای ایران-کنترا, es, Caso Irán–Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the McFarlane affair (in Iran), or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States ...
, Israel helps arm the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war with the ultimate goal of using Iran to create major damage to Iraq, which would be too busy to retaliate. Mossad poisoned German politician
Uwe Barschel Uwe Barschel (13 May 1944 – 11 October 1987) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Having assumed office of Minister-President at the age of 38, Ba ...
, who had helped Mossad in their dealings with the Iranians but was going to reveal the secrets of his dealings. The murder was very unusual because his corpse was found fully clothed in a bathtub full of water, in an attempt to make it look like a suicide. In July 2011, German authorities in
Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the state ...
announced that they would reopen the murder investigation of his death.Family says German was slain
''New York Times'', 1987/10/13 Mossad co-ordinated the assassination of Israeli general
Yekutiel Adam Yekutiel "Kuti" Adam ( he, יקותיאל "קותי" אדם; November 3, 1927 – June 10, 1982) was an Israeli general and former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. Biography He was born in Tel Aviv to Yehuda and Elisheva Adam ...
. General Adam was chosen as the head of Mossad but was hated by a right-wing clique of extremists within it, who co-ordinated his assassination when he went to Lebanon. The death of the general was reported to be a combat casualty, but Ostrovsky states that friends who were active in the Mossad told him that the clique in the Mossad had paid a Palestinian to assassinate Adam and that a picture of the General was found in the pocket of the Palestinian assassin working for Mossad. In mid-February 1986, the Mossad allegedly planted a radio relay device, the "Trojan", in a rented apartment in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Other Side of Deception, The Books about the Mossad 1994 non-fiction books HarperCollins books